
Teen pulls siblings to safety as cooking oil fire guts Mt Roskill home
The two-storey building was well-involved by the time firefighters arrived.
The two-storey building was well-involved by the time firefighters arrived.
Two shops in the Wairarapa have been badly damaged by fire overnight.
The Armed Offenders Squad, Fire Service, and St John Ambulance were present at a standoff where a man had set his home on fire in Titirangi. Video / NZ Herald
The fire broke out early today at the Contemporary Chinese Research Centre.
A number of people are thought to have been injured.
Suspected arson at Flaxmere business. Video / Craig Cooper
The Sheffield Hotel in Darfield has been badly damaged by fire overnight.
Fire investigators will work to figure out the cause of a blaze in Auckland overnight.
Services were called to the Great South Rd address just after 9am today.
'I thought there was a plane crash right on top of the house,' witness says.
The person was taken to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition.
The single-storey house fire was reported at 4.22am.
Police are trying to work out the family's movements prior to the ute being on the beach.
Some prisoners were evacuated after a small fire in a cell.
MetService has issued two severe weather warnings for the region.
Two patients were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation following the fire. Video / NZ Herald
The cause of the fire is being investigated
The couple lost both their vehicles and their belongings in the blaze.
Two people are dead and two others injured after the car struck a power pole on Henderson Valley Road. Video / NZ Herald
Westies banded together to rescue neighbours and their animals trapped by floods.
'The property is insured and the insurance claim has been accepted in full' - owner.
The country's largest fire trucks keep breaking down and no new ones have been ordered.
No one was injured in the three house fires overnight.
A man was seen being dragged from his home while it went up in flames.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a cow on the mooove.
Smoke is billowing across a bus lane as a vehicle erupts in fire.
Firefighters were called to the scene at about 9.42pm.
There was a serious crash in Auckland's West Harbour this afternoon.